A woman in Thebez

[zeborah]

A rather nasty chap called Abimelech (the son of his father's slave girl) has come to power and is embroiling the country in civil war. He captures the city of Thebez, but everyone in the city has locked themselves into a tower. As he goes up to set the tower on fire, a nameless woman (Judges 9:53-54) drops a millstone on his head. Abimelech's dying thought is that he doesn't want people to say a woman killed him, so he gets his armor-bearer to run him through with his sword. Personally I don't know if that really counts...